Episode 25 - Jeff Landry recall, Sharon Broome, and Barbershops

Dave and Drew discuss the new Governor Landry recall effort, Sharon Broome subpoena and lawyer, and Baker is banning barberships. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:07

Welcome back. It is the Savigate Podcast. We are Dave and Drew with episode number 25. Your host, Dave Ripolo, Savagate Rider, legend. And me, Drew Merle, St. George, City Councilman, attorney. So, this week, no guest. No guest. Just us. No guest. You know, Wade's got his own, Wade's got his own media room now. I've seen it. I've seen it. He no longer needs us.

SPEAKER_01 0:34

Yeah, I've seen it up close.

SPEAKER_00 0:35

The student has become the master.

SPEAKER_01 0:37

You would have figured he'd invited us for the first show over there.

SPEAKER_00 0:39

It's really weird that we haven't been invited up there.

SPEAKER_01 0:41

Let me check my text right now, though. I haven't checked him in a couple of weeks. Really weird. No, he still hasn't invited us.

SPEAKER_00 0:46

Oh, you know what it is? He moved on. Yeah. Moved onward, upward.

SPEAKER_01 0:50

Didn't even hasn't even offered me a key card to it.

SPEAKER_00 0:52

No key cards. No.

SPEAKER_01 0:54

He's big time now. He's got his own city hall.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

Big time Central Mayor. City Hall, and it's got the pink lights, all kinds of fun light shows. I wonder at five bucks. Wade sits at home and occasionally goes, I'm going to change the lights because it's got a little, you know, app or program to it.

SPEAKER_01 1:09

You think he does it? He just goes to it.

SPEAKER_00 1:10

I guarantee you he's like he's like sitting there on the toilet. Changing the lights. I'm going to change it to purple and gold. I'm going to change it. What is Central's colors? Maroon and gray? I bet you can do that. And just randomly change. What's the theme today? Whatever Wade thought of today.

SPEAKER_01 1:26

You're probably right. You're probably right.

SPEAKER_00 1:27

That's so great. So instead, we're going to focus on the local news, what's going on, you know, savagate kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

I'll tell you what, it's been um we missed last week. We had to uh skip due to uh some unforeseen circumstances. So um a lot going on. We missed a couple things last week, but uh yeah, one is I thought the news just shuts down when we don't do stuff. No, no, it doesn't. It doesn't. The Savagate does, but um the regular news doesn't. Okay, what we got? Um a couple of things. So a former mayor, who I won't mention her name, Sharon Westonbroom.

SPEAKER_00 2:01

My favorite mayor. Without her, there might not be a St. George.

SPEAKER_01 2:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:06

Um Thank you, Mayor, for all your hard work.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

Yeah, it looks like uh she hired a high profile criminal defense lawyer yesterday. Or the news broke yesterday. It did. This is related to the string of subpoenas that she and some other people.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

So here's what I'm gonna take I'm gonna take a surprising position on this. I think what's wrong with that? If if you were going to do so, for example, uh, would you and some people do, would you file your own taxes without an accountant?

SPEAKER_01 2:42

Absolutely not.

SPEAKER_00 2:43

Would you build a skyscraper without an engineer? No.

unknown 2:47

No.

SPEAKER_00 2:48

Why would you go into a process that sounds pretty scary without somebody there to tell you what to how how it goes?

SPEAKER_01 2:56

Fair enough. Now, full disclosure, you're not the attorney she hired. No, I'm not sure. Okay, just making sure, because you sounded like you were you were like, oh in a bat for your I'm not sure there's a planet where Sharon Broom calls my office and says, I really could use you. You never know. You have a great reputation. You're on this advocate podcast. That's so true. That's so true.

SPEAKER_00 3:14

My profile's never been better.

SPEAKER_01 3:16

So, as I understand, the news before this was ex-mayor and a couple of council people received subpoenas to go testify, right?

SPEAKER_00 3:27

That's right. It was like five.

SPEAKER_01 3:29

Okay, and of course, all the news media was there, no sharing. No pictures of her going to the building, which set off a bunch of speculation. And now this pops up. But the news article, and I didn't read it, said grand jury postponed. Did they go testify in front of a grand juror? Was that what the subpoena was?

SPEAKER_00 3:49

I I really don't know a lot about I mean, it's not my not my circus, so I really have stayed out of it and and not really interjected.

SPEAKER_01 3:58

I guess we'll have to wait for it.

SPEAKER_00 4:00

And part of that is I don't really know. I mean, is she a target or is she literally um just a witness? Now look, here's the thing. I'm gonna give you my my thoughts on Sharon Weston Brain real quick. Do I think she did anything illegal? I'm gonna lean towards no. I don't think she's intelligent enough to do that, to to do illegal things like that. I do think she's not intelligent to a point where she hired a bunch of people who absolutely broke the law because those are the people that you see getting indicted.

SPEAKER_01 4:37

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 4:38

And so that's that's where I think it comes in. She, you know, for whatever her identity politics are, she hired a bunch of people who weren't qualified to do their jobs, likely to steal, and did. And then it's all coming back. It's all coming up now. So I think I think we're more looking at Sharon Broom incompetence, not Sharon Broom. I mean, my conversations with her, she didn't have any knowledge about anything. Anything. Not even basic knowledge.

SPEAKER_01 5:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:05

Uh so I don't really understand if she could go that far. But whatever.

SPEAKER_01 5:10

Be a good, it's gonna be a good uh it's gonna be a good story.

SPEAKER_00 5:12

But I would say if you hire a lawyer for something, it does not mean you're guilty.

SPEAKER_01 5:16

Oh, I agree.

SPEAKER_00 5:16

It means you're just from vocabulary. I mean, how do you spell subpoena? Maybe you want a lawyer for that. I don't know. Just a good idea.

SPEAKER_01 5:24

Well, I am curious, and according to the dozens of private messages I've been receiving every couple hours about this story, my fans are also curious to see how this plays out. So we'll see. Might be some good Savagate material for me and the crew.

SPEAKER_00 5:40

Well, anytime you have subpoenas, indictments, and government officials in the same sentence, that just reeks of savagate. You can't spell savocate without subpoena.

SPEAKER_01 5:49

Or without sad.

SPEAKER_00 5:51

Very true.

SPEAKER_01 5:51

Yeah. So uh we got a new recall petition. Uh, we have uh one going for Sid Edwards, I believe it's up to a Baker's dozen signatures. Really? Third month in. I just got 13, maybe 14.

SPEAKER_00 6:02

With that kind of hard work, you're gonna be there before you know it.

SPEAKER_01 6:05

Yeah, they only need 49,900, and I think eight.

SPEAKER_00 6:08

I would I if this were the recall effort, if I was looking to recall somebody and I I needed some help and assistance and all the logistics that go into that, mobilization, rallying the trip, I would hire this lady.

SPEAKER_01 6:21

Yeah, yeah. She's also filed one against Governor Jeff Landry as of yesterday. Perfect.

SPEAKER_00 6:25

Yeah. Perfect. I'm telling you now, if if somebody wants to recall a government official, if you're that government, if you're Jeff Landry and you look over and go, oh, it's the same lady who's doing the Sid Edwards one. Thank God. Yeah. It could have been legitimate.

SPEAKER_01 6:41

But now she's got to get 600,000 signatures in 180 days. Now, I have a feeling she'll get a whole lot of more signatures for Landry than she's gotten for Sid Edwards.

SPEAKER_00 6:52

That's fair. That's fair.

SPEAKER_01 6:54

Um, but uh yeah, I don't and honestly, I I'm not surprised this came. I'm surprised it came from her. I I would have figured another group would have started this uh initially, but um a lot of uh bad news uh coming out of the governor's office this week, so not not a shock at all.

SPEAKER_00 7:10

No, I think actually this is probably the most pleasant thing that the governor's saying that I'm gonna talk about the safe.

SPEAKER_01 7:15

Uh right, 100%.

SPEAKER_00 7:17

Nobody's gonna change the locks in the governor's mansion.

SPEAKER_01 7:19

I'm not gonna sign it because you know the Savicate depends on Jeff Landry for 90% of its content lately, and he's a flora of content.

SPEAKER_00 7:27

Keep on contributing. It's gotta be a coach, a swimming and diving coach that's gonna get fired at some point.

SPEAKER_01 7:32

You know, John Bell Edwards provided plenty, but oddly enough, Jeff Landry provides a lot of. No.

SPEAKER_00 7:43

You are a you are wherever the content takes you. Right.

SPEAKER_01 7:47

Wherever the content takes us.

SPEAKER_00 7:48

Very a lot of integrity at the Savvocate.

SPEAKER_01 7:50

We we you know, the Savicate is uh built on integrity.

SPEAKER_00 7:53

Built on it. Yeah. Foundation.

SPEAKER_01 7:55

Yeah. This looks like the district attorney filed the lawsuit claiming inadequate funding. Counsel says priorities must be balanced.

SPEAKER_00 8:03

What I love about this is nothing says I don't have adequate funding, like filing a lawsuit that you have to prosecute using that funding. Um I've tried to help in this regard. Uh I think uh the district attorney can tell you. I've offered suggestions.

SPEAKER_01 8:20

What kind of suggestions did you offer?

SPEAKER_00 8:22

Well, thank you for asking. I please appreciate that. Um we should just abolish the parish attorney's office down to one person, two people, maybe five.

SPEAKER_01 8:30

I have like sixty or seventy now?

SPEAKER_00 8:31

There's seventy employees, seven million dollars a year. Um, and I think you would say uh Hiller or whoever the DA in the future would be, you absorb that office and those responsibilities, or you just have one to five parish attorneys who act as general counsel who farm out everything because that's what they do now.

SPEAKER_01 8:52

Everywhere else.

SPEAKER_00 8:52

Yep. Well, that's what they do here. Oh, those 70 people still sub stuff out? Yes, I've been in a room with four of them, and they still had another private attorney and uh doing all the work. Baffle. It's a baffling office.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

Correct me if I'm wrong. Was this not a subject of discussion with our previous police chief asking for more money for to defend himself against some some suits because the parish attorney couldn't handle it all? Yes, I believe, right?

SPEAKER_00 9:22

All of those suits are subbed out to private counsel. We have 70. Yes, it's seven million a year budget. You know how many uh parish attorneys Lafayette has? Probably a couple. One just one. And he subs everything out. He acts like a general counsel, and that's what the job is. So that seven million goes to the DA's office. Sounds like we've gone a long way towards plugging that gap. And I really think so. I'll be pro-lawsuit on this. I guarantee you he sat there watching the same Metro Council meeting I did, where he's watching the police pay raise, which I guarantee you he would be all about that. That's great. Let's give them the pay raise they deserve. Understood. We we obviously talked to uh Chief TJ Morse about it, and he saw that the council members were grandstanding at that point for getting raises for everybody in city government needs a raise. All the city workers need a raise. And he's sitting there going, I don't hear the DA's office in that conversation. That's true. That's true. Where are my raise at? Where am I, yeah? I'm not even asking for a raise, I'm just asking for adequate funding. Right.

unknown 10:33

Right.

SPEAKER_00 10:33

And so now he's forcing that conversation. I hope, I hope, serious, that this causes the entire parish to have a conversation about priorities. And if you want to quit having people shot off school buses or at malls or other places, you need to reprioritize our funding away from some of these statutory dedicated things that are coming up on your ballot and say maybe in a billion dollar budget we can figure out how to get an extra 20 million to the DA's office. Dropping the bucket. Priorities, people, priorities.

SPEAKER_01 11:07

Speaking of the DA, it looks like the DA subpoenaed the ankle monitoring companies over alleged unreported violations.

SPEAKER_00 11:17

Well, you know, if uh a guy is supposed to have one and it doesn't work, that's a problem. So ankle monitoring has been a complete des off and on disaster the entire time it's been in creation. Agreed. You had some where attorneys or people were buying the ankle monitoring companies and paying judges to refer criminals to the ankle monitoring company. Then you've got, does it even work? Not sure. Uh probably something we should be looking at on a regular basis.

SPEAKER_01 11:48

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or if we had a big enough parish prison, we wouldn't need ankle monitoring. We could just house them.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

You know, parish prison. I'm thinking this is one of those duplicative efforts. Could we convert one of the EBR non-magnet high schools into a school/slash parish prison?

SPEAKER_01 12:10

I don't see why not. You should run for uh mayor. He's about an Rage Parish.

SPEAKER_00 12:15

Oh no. Huh? Scary.

SPEAKER_01 12:17

That's a good idea, though.

SPEAKER_00 12:18

You know, just m maximizing our resources or or libraries. The libraries, they provide books, they can give uh education resources to these inmates, and the inmates are in a place that no one else is anyway. Kind of a win-win.

SPEAKER_01 12:38

That's true. Maybe bring it up at the next council meeting.

SPEAKER_00 12:41

TED Talk.

SPEAKER_01 12:42

Yeah.

unknown 12:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:43

There you go.

SPEAKER_01 12:43

So yeah, the the uh he subpoenaed the ankle monitoring companies, and I have a feeling there's gonna be a ton of evidence there that they are not doing the job. Wait a minute. We're supposed to call y'all if you leave their house?

SPEAKER_00 12:53

We just give them the ankle monitor. You never said we had to monitor it.

SPEAKER_01 12:59

Baker City Council approves temporary ban on new barbershops and salons along major roads. How many barbershops exist in Baker that they have to ban new barbershops?

SPEAKER_00 13:12

I want to know what barbershop was talking about Mayor Waits. I got him so upset about this. Number one, by the way, Mayor Waits. Have we heard from him when he's coming on yet?

SPEAKER_01 13:22

I am going to get an owner of one of these barbershops to come on and find out the real story about the mayor and the barbershop band.

SPEAKER_00 13:30

So it's so much better. How about we do the show on location? At a barbershop? At a barbershop. I mean, this is a world I would like to know more about. And and frankly, hair care is probably not an area where you know a lot about. Used to. Years ago. This would be a place where uh I imagine you had like really long hair at some point.

SPEAKER_01 13:48

Very curly.

SPEAKER_00 13:49

Italian Italian. Fascinating. Very curly. Uh, but yeah, I would like to say this is a racist law.

SPEAKER_01 13:57

But Baker passed it. I don't ban on new barbershop. I mean, do they have that many barbershop applications? Is this a thing? I think it's a legit business.

SPEAKER_00 14:07

I mean, there's but but in the list of things I would like to see less of. Or that you think in certain communities we don't want to vape shops and nail shops. You know, i in certain areas that are low-income areas, you don't want, right, a bunch of liquor stores. You don't want a bunch of pawn shops, and you don't want a bunch of cash advanced places. I get that this has a connection that makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 14:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:30

Why what are they doing in the barber shop?

SPEAKER_01 14:33

I mean, I mean, cutting hair, you would think, but but no no more uh no more no more barbershops in Baker.

SPEAKER_00 14:41

I mean Baker, I mean, I I would remove all sporting events from the town of Baker until they allow more barbershops in.

SPEAKER_01 14:53

Benny's car washes built a beautiful new facility out there.

SPEAKER_00 14:56

Or car washes, all right. So car wash is good.

SPEAKER_01 14:59

Car washes are good, and they built a be quick quick stop right next to it. Like it's legit like the beautiful place.

SPEAKER_00 15:05

Perfect. Don't cut hair in there.

SPEAKER_01 15:07

Maybe I wonder I wonder if you can still cut hair at your house.

SPEAKER_00 15:12

If you got are we gonna have to worry about the back alley barbershops now?

SPEAKER_01 15:15

Black market barbershops. That's right. Pull up a guy, he opens up his coat, he's got like some scissors and a brush.

SPEAKER_00 15:20

Exactly right. I'll get you a low taper fade right now, right now the back.

SPEAKER_01 15:25

Maybe I'll reach out to uh the Baker City Council and see if I can get some insight on this. Yes, let's get more info on this. Barbershops. Would St. George ever ban barbershops? What businesses would St.

SPEAKER_00 15:37

I can't say I can't say I've put a lot of thought into the barbershops. Uh I I would absolut I I would be remiss if I did not say I would like to see less vape shops.

SPEAKER_01 15:47

I feel like that might be unconstitutional, though. Could it could a municipality ban a certain type of business? What's the just cause?

SPEAKER_00 15:54

Too many? What's too many? I would think you could not ban the concept of it if it's legal. I think you could ban the density of it, perhaps. But we're not targeting barbershop. Hey, how about that? St. George, barbershop friendly.

SPEAKER_01 16:08

How about if you and I get on Baker City Council website, fill out an application to open a new barbershop, and we'll see what kind of reply we get. We'll see what kind of excuse we get. I think that'd be great. Savaket barbershop. Love that. I'm gonna fill it out and I'm gonna report back with what they send me back.

SPEAKER_00 16:25

Really taking this all the way down the road to Baker.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

This might be our our foot in the door in Baker.

SPEAKER_00 16:32

It sounds like the Savocate is invading Baker. We're invading your town.

SPEAKER_01 16:36

We could go to the city council meeting and bring a couple people and protest why we can't open a new barber shooting.

SPEAKER_00 16:40

They absolutely will not want the Savagate in Baker. I guarantee we might see something that they don't want us to see. Like the inside of a barbershop.

unknown 16:51

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 16:51

Good old Baker.

SPEAKER_00 16:52

Love Baker.

SPEAKER_01 16:53

It looks like the Baton Rouge Zydeco hockey team is going away. What they're folding.

SPEAKER_00 17:00

I'd like to think that I can see the tea leaves and read the future.

SPEAKER_01 17:05

You know, the Kingfish was a much better league back in the 90s, yes, mid-90s. It was great. I used to uh I lived in Lafayette for a brief spell, and we used to come every game across the river, go to the Centraplex, watch the Battener's Kingfish. It was high energy, big crowd. Big time.

SPEAKER_00 17:24

I have taken um ice skaters did well for a long time in laughter.

SPEAKER_01 17:28

Best name ever in hockey, by the way. Um going to a couple of Zydeco games this year. Just low crowd, low energy. Can't figure out why. It's it's inexpensive to go to, right? It's a lot of fun. There's good music, lights, plenty of activities the kids can get involved in playing. People come around, the camera's out, they have the kiss cam, the dance cam. They have everything, all the ingredients you need to make this popular, and it's not, and it's inexpensive. I can't figure out.

SPEAKER_00 17:56

Let me tell you the ingredients they don't have. Uh, one, we don't have ice, so we don't play hockey. I get it. There are people that have migrated here from other areas that have hockey in their world, and they love it. That's their outlet. But we don't have ice. Look, I living in Texas, when the Dallas Stars came from Minnesota and put a hockey team in, the first thing they did before they got there was set up ice hockey ranks all over the Metroplex area so they could integrate the community into what is hockey play hockey, they have hockey leagues, they have I mean, it's a big community in the Metroplex area. I don't think we have that kind of audience, I don't think we have that kind of desire. Um that would be one, we don't have hockey. Two, downtown Baton Rouge. Good point. Don't want to go. Um three, river center, dump of an arena. Thanks for nothing. Um let's see, four.

SPEAKER_01 18:55

I think I know four. Oh this is a pet peeve of mine. Do it. And I brought this up to a couple of people. So it is called the Raising Canes River Center.

SPEAKER_00 19:04

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 19:05

And they have four or five very nice concession stands around the and each of them sell chicken strips.

SPEAKER_00 19:15

But not raising canes chicken strips?

SPEAKER_01 19:17

No. These are frozen, previous frozen fried or whatever. You know they should have done dinoggies. They're expensive.

SPEAKER_00 19:25

If they sold dino nuggies, that would have been better.

SPEAKER_01 19:28

They're expensive, and they are not raising canes. Chicken fingers. That baffles me too.

SPEAKER_00 19:34

That whole arena is just a disaster. It just it sucks. It's sad.

SPEAKER_01 19:40

I honestly believe it needs to be leveled.

SPEAKER_00 19:42

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 19:42

Okay. And built something there on that footprint. Yep. Maybe bigger McMoving.

SPEAKER_00 19:48

Design exhibition hall.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

With a hotel on top.

SPEAKER_00 19:50

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 19:51

Convention center, everything right there, big parking garage, every just taking the parking garages, all of that whole thing. It needs it. Because that's really that's really limiting Baton Rouge. You know, we don't have any good concerts here anymore.

SPEAKER_00 20:03

Nope.

SPEAKER_01 20:03

You know, we we don't.

SPEAKER_00 20:04

Um and you really don't need two of the arenas that are almost the exact same size, like a mile from each other.

SPEAKER_01 20:10

Mile from each other. That's stupid. Yeah, that's gonna be interesting.

SPEAKER_00 20:13

Actually, number four for me, I'll say now number five. Uh, it's called the Zydeco. When you named it something stupid that has no connection to the area, zero. Kingfish was awesome. Kingfish was fantastic. Had a great name. You could work with that. You should have just come back, bought the name and come back with it. There's so many things you could have done, and you went with something that said, How do you know you're not from here without saying you're not from here? Zydeca.

SPEAKER_01 20:39

Zydeco. We had a lot of fun when they named it the Zydeco. I mean, the Savagate capitalized on that and and capitalized we did. No one there's I I even went to Google and where can I hear Zydecote music in Baton Rouge? And Google instantly rattled me to Lafayette.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

At the same festival that you and I uh typically attend each year uh last weekend, uh St. Thomas More Catholic School Festival, um, go Eagles. Um first time I have ever seen a Zydeco jersey was last weekend. And I all I could think of when the announcement was made was man, that guy's gonna be really sad. He didn't see it coming. He was rallying until the last minute.

SPEAKER_01 21:18

But and on that note, um when I went to the games, there was a good little crowd of people all wearing their jerseys, and they were having a good time. Of course, you know, we needed 50 times that many groups, but it was really sad to see how much they enjoyed. You could these people were there every game. They probably tailgated, they loved it, but just not enough interest. And it's it's it's really sad that that it's come to this.

SPEAKER_00 21:45

What what is the saddest part of the story? That they went from a hundred and ten thousand to sixty one thousand, or I am completely shocked they had sixty one thousand people show up for an entire season. I would have thought the number would have been I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 21:58

Uh no hundred. I don't there was no context in this headline, so I don't know if that's sixty one thousand for the whole like every if you count every fan at every game through the I'm assuming that's every game.

SPEAKER_00 22:11

I assume that's add up the attendance of every game. So it's not even sixty one thousand, which is misleading. It's Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:17

Yeah. Honestly, there was probably only maybe a couple thousand people.

SPEAKER_00 22:23

How many games uh how do you know how many games they play in a season for the Zyda Cat?

SPEAKER_01 22:27

I think it's a couple dozen.

SPEAKER_00 22:28

Okay, so you got two dozen games at 61,000. You're averaging maybe 3,000 fans a game.

SPEAKER_01 22:34

There wasn't 3,000 people at these games.

SPEAKER_00 22:36

3,000. Well, you're probably counting paid attendance. That's true. Corporate strategy.

SPEAKER_01 22:44

Yeah. That's tough. 110,000 in itself is really not a lot, but you can't. You can't.

SPEAKER_00 22:49

No, well, you know, they've laid to rest. Good night, sweetico. Um maybe they could play their some games at like Pete Goolsby Field. That's where you go when you don't want to be successful in the long term, right?

SPEAKER_01 23:01

Maybe when we get this uh new stadium at the at the Breck uh State Fairgrounds, we have uh we could get a uh minor league baseball team because I as I understand it's gonna be the same specs we need for minor league.

SPEAKER_00 23:13

I would like to have a successful local uh Baton Rouge minor league team.

unknown 23:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:19

I think that would be wonderful to have it out in an area where people play baseball. Yeah. I think that's a great idea.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 23:24

Be looking for that. It's gonna be great. Wonderful idea. I you know, I'd also like to have maybe a small college play its baseball games there as well. I wonder if we can make that happen. Should be. Potential. A lot of potential, a lot of potential. You can't say Baton Rouge without saying potential.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

Yeah. Or St.

SPEAKER_00 23:50

George without potential in the Baton Rouge area. So yeah, there you go. You want to do some tricks? So, yes, I want to know first how do you find the Savagate if you want to locate us?

SPEAKER_01 24:01

Um, you could find us at thesavic.com. You could go to our Facebook page, thesavicate. You could go to Facebook and type the Savavicate Podcast, and we have a group there. Admittedly, I haven't been keeping up with it, but I will. Very nice. Um, yeah. Um, you can find the podcast at Apple Podcasts.

SPEAKER_00 24:18

Um we get us everywhere podcasts are found. So you got Spotify, uh, Apple, Buzz Sprout, you got a bunch of different places. So if you can locate a podcast, we're there. So that's wonderful. If you want to text the show, how do you do that?

SPEAKER_01 24:31

Uh you could text us at 225-255-2480 and we'll read your text on the air like we're about to do. Or you could uh also email us at podcast at thesadvocate.com.

SPEAKER_00 24:41

Yep. So be careful. If you do that, you could wind up making a podcast. So what about text emails? What did we get in the last couple of weeks?

SPEAKER_01 24:48

Uh we got a couple. So uh we got one here that says, Why aren't the shows taped weekly anymore? I can only assume that came from someone who realized we didn't upload a show last week only because uh we had some uh conflicting uh schedules. I was uh sick. We just we just didn't make it happen. I apologize.

SPEAKER_00 25:06

Sound like you're kind of sick.

SPEAKER_01 25:07

Yeah, I got a little congestion.

SPEAKER_00 25:08

Yeah, I was just lingering.

SPEAKER_01 25:09

Yeah. Um so yeah, but we we do try to tape the shows weekly, and sometimes after we after we tape them, we actually find them and upload them a couple of weeks later. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 25:19

Shut your mouth. Yeah. So by the way, mystery episode coming soon.

SPEAKER_01 25:23

We have a Sadvocate lost episode. We got our first lost episode. It only took us 25 shows. That's right. We have a lost episode.

SPEAKER_00 25:29

So it's not going on the DVD as a special feature. It is now being released from the vault for a limited time only. Once it goes back in the vault, you'll never be able to get it again.

SPEAKER_01 25:38

Download it, bootleg it, whatever you gotta do. That's right. Save it, record it. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 25:42

Um it's coming.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

Yeah, so we do record weekly, and and eventually, if me and Drew get our schedules together, we could try to record more than weekly. That'd be great. But for now, it's it's Wednesday.

SPEAKER_00 25:51

So uh hey, I just want to tell you if you recall Governor Landry, you're gonna reduce the possibilities of us taping more than one episode a week. We need we need the governor to generate more content.

SPEAKER_01 26:03

We need the content. We sure do, buddy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:05

So, yes, that's true. So, yeah, more episodes are coming.

SPEAKER_01 26:08

Next text is the Savagate having a party since Broom got subpoenaed?

SPEAKER_00 26:12

Let me tell you, there is no bigger fan of former mayor Sharon Weston Broom than me. I'm a huge fan of hers. I've been a huge fan of hers for her entire administration from the moment she called St. George uh residents secessionist uh all the way through to the very end. I needed her as the antagonist. Uh I needed her in competence.

SPEAKER_01 26:37

She drove the motivation.

SPEAKER_00 26:38

I mean, every time she would do something asinine.

SPEAKER_01 26:43

When a state representative looks you in the eyes and says, Guys, if you want a school district, go inform your own city.

SPEAKER_00 26:50

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 26:50

And you go and form your own city, and then that same state representative sues you for forming your own city, that only could give you the motivation that it gave the St.

SPEAKER_00 26:59

When she's given a deposition and she cannot answer basic questions about how her government functions. Thank you so much. In fact, I I this is no joke, and you can you can ask other people about I have suggested a statue to Sharon Weston Broom somewhere near St. George City Hall.

SPEAKER_01 27:18

We will make that happen on thesadvocate.com.

SPEAKER_00 27:21

I want it to happen. I mean, no bigger fan of hers than me.

SPEAKER_01 27:24

Couldn't have happened without you.

SPEAKER_00 27:26

So thank you, Sharon. Appreciate it.

SPEAKER_01 27:28

Maybe y'all could pick up some of her legal bills here to at the show of things.

SPEAKER_00 27:32

Let's not go that far.

SPEAKER_01 27:33

How about offer some pro bono legal?

SPEAKER_00 27:36

Let's not go that far.

SPEAKER_01 27:37

It's it's an olive branch. You know she's not going to accept, but you look like the bigger guy for for volunteering.

SPEAKER_00 27:42

Well, I've never been accused of that. So let's not do that.

SPEAKER_01 27:45

All right, what else we got? I seen you at the Central City Hall opening last night. Now that's obviously a week old text. I don't know who sent that. I just have a phone number. But I was at the Central City Hall Grand Opening talking to our good friend Wade.

SPEAKER_00 28:00

So give me a read. I did not get to go. That was so in the land of priorities.

SPEAKER_01 28:05

Man, there was some big people, there were some big names.

SPEAKER_00 28:07

Let's get this straight. So let me tell you something.

SPEAKER_01 28:08

Eight reps were there.

SPEAKER_00 28:10

Central City Hall opening, a wonderful event. Yes. Uh great, a beautiful facility, a long time coming. My wife's birthday was that same time, and that is a priority.

SPEAKER_01 28:23

I'm not sure if that's a good enough excuse, Drew.

SPEAKER_00 28:25

Well, works for me. You know what?

SPEAKER_01 28:30

Let me tell you something.

SPEAKER_00 28:31

I have to go, I go home to the wife. I do not want to live with Wade Evans. And so he's got room, as I understand that. He's got room. So, you know, to keep my happy home, I'm going to make sure my priorities are straight. And I can always go visit Central City Hall, you know, later.

SPEAKER_01 28:48

I'd also like to, while we're at it, thank Wade Evans for waiving my cover charge and my one drink minimum while I was there. It was great. It was fantastic.

SPEAKER_00 28:55

So great. Club Central.

SPEAKER_01 28:57

Yeah, I went after hours, so the poll was empty. Clubs.

SPEAKER_00 29:00

Club Central.

SPEAKER_01 29:01

Great place, though. Ran into a bunch of St. George people, our our police chief, Mr. Todd. We were very supportive of our friends and Lauren Ventrella, representative from I think District 69, was there. Beautiful event, beautiful city hall.

SPEAKER_00 29:13

Yep. Love and Central. Great job.

SPEAKER_01 29:15

I'm glad you seen me out there. I was there.

SPEAKER_00 29:18

He he's seen you too.

SPEAKER_01 29:19

Our next uh email is why the F has this bridge taken so long to plan, not even start building, just the planning.

SPEAKER_00 29:28

I assume we're referring to what I'm gonna refer as to the newest. Newest bridge. Mississippi River Bridge. Um well let's I I think the the comment was correct. The Baltimore Bridge was built, destroyed, rebuilt, and we haven't even gotten to the place we're gonna put one yet.

SPEAKER_01 29:48

The key, the key bridge, Francis Key, I believe, was was destroyed two years ago. Recently was the anniversary, and to date, construction is 100% moving forward.

SPEAKER_00 29:58

Wait, they named that bridge Francis Scott Key Bridge? Is that the name of it?

SPEAKER_01 30:02

The Key Bridge. The old one was. I'm assuming they're gonna rename the.

SPEAKER_00 30:04

I mean, I would hope so. He wrote the national anthem.

SPEAKER_01 30:07

Two years, and that thing is back in the work. Boom. We are probably on year 40, and we haven't even found a location.

SPEAKER_00 30:15

You're telling me Baltimore thought this bridge is important. We need to get it up because of traffic and commerce and all the things. Yes. We should get on this. Baltimore, not a city known for great government. And they got it done.

SPEAKER_01 30:31

24 months. It is. They are you can look, you can there's a live stream camera. They are building the bridge.

SPEAKER_00 30:36

And we are still doing a study about the study to study the possibility of a new bridge.

SPEAKER_01 30:42

Haven't you found the location yet? Quick trivia. How long did it take to build the original Pontatrain Causeway? Uh shore to shore. I'll go two years. Construction. Public works project. Construction, yes. Two years? Fourteen months. Fourteen months. Start to finish. Look it up. There's a documentary on YouTube. I watched it and fell out of my chair. 14 months.

SPEAKER_00 31:04

You watched a documentary on building a bridge.

SPEAKER_01 31:06

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 31:07

The Causeway Bridge.

SPEAKER_01 31:08

I want to be well-versed in all things bridge construction in Louisiana. You'd be a hobby. To continue the great thing about the new bridge, it's never gonna happen. The savagate material on the new bridge will go on for 40 years.

SPEAKER_00 31:20

Did you watch it solely so you could come in and chastise the new bridge effort? Or did you watch it because you cared about the Causeway Bridge?

SPEAKER_01 31:30

Both. 9010, but but 14 months. Um, I look, like I said, the beauty about the new bridge here is they're never gonna build it. The Savagate will have that to fall back on forever. Forever. In in 15 years, my kid will probably be one of the writers, and he's gonna be going, you know, back in my day when our dad and his friends used to joke about the bridge, it's still not gonna be built.

SPEAKER_00 31:51

We should start a predictive market on Baton Rouge things. Yeah, steal my ideas. Great. But uh, I shouldn't have put it out there now. But we can have a couple of things we can vote on initially. New bridge getting built, a timeline you can bet on, or finish the uh Capital Lakes project. Which one's gonna happen first? You're implying that one of them's gonna happen. Yeah, train from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, we can put that on the list. Oh, yeah, sure. Yeah. Uh downtown revitalization.

SPEAKER_01 32:19

Yeah, right, right.

SPEAKER_00 32:20

Surf Lake and Central. Surf Lake, Parish Prison.

SPEAKER_01 32:23

Yeah, Parish Prison, right, right. We got a new mosquito and rodent control building.

SPEAKER_00 32:27

Maybe we'd just do two categories. Any of these projects play the field, any of these projects get complete in the next decade versus no.

SPEAKER_01 32:34

Yeah. That's it. That's right. There's just the multiple choice. Right. No. No chance.

SPEAKER_00 32:39

Oh my God. It's so great. All right.

SPEAKER_01 32:41

What else you got? What's EBR school's angle on trying to convince people that a school system that has sucked for 50 years is going to get better sooner than later? I'll let you take the lead on this. Oh my God, Mr. Andrew.

SPEAKER_00 32:54

This is I I I Okay. I also do not understand. The conundrum of we're 55th near the bottom in a state that's historically ranked near the bottom in education, while our surrounding immediate neighbors have two of the top five school districts in the state, Central and Zachary, Ascension and Livingston, I believe, are top ten school districts in the state. We don't want anything to do with that level of success. I am baffled by it. I am absolutely baffled by it. And and I've said it before, I understand what the dynamic is. Uh for Magnet Mom, uh, Magnet Mom is like a rabid badger or Wolverine with rabies. Like we'll literally claw your eyes out. I understand her motivation. I think for the most part, she has been, and I'm I'm being a collective she, so if you think I'm talking about you, probably. Um she's angry and she only cares about her little Susie. As long as little Susie's getting harp lessons at Baton Rouge High, she does not care about the other 90-95% that attend a prison school system that literally has no desire for them to succeed or be successful citizens. As long as little Susie's getting her education at Baton Rouge or Liberty or Sherwood Middle Magnet or wham. Uh or BRC VPA. BRC VPA, not even smart enough to come up with an acronym that spells something. You gotta remember it's BRC VPA. Um that's all she cares about, and that's what's sad, is I understand that. I I respect that. And if you came out and said, I don't care, I don't want to mess up her education, I'd I completely respect that. That's the same process I assume we should all have and prioritize with our kids. But the system as a whole is an absolute failure. I don't have to be a rocket scientist, and I'm not. I looked at the the the population, student population from 2000 to now and watched it decline by I think a third. And that includes a bump with people moving in for Katrina. Right. Where's all the growth occurring? I can literally pick these other school districts that I talked about in the top ten and watch in the same time period skyrocketing population totals, and yet there's a group that tells me I'm absolutely wrong and stupid for wanting that, and that things are fine. There, this is the meme where there's the fire going on all around you. Everything's fine, everything's fine, nothing to see here. It is baffling to me.

SPEAKER_01 35:40

Let me read you the highest overall district performance scores for 2024-2025, and tell me what they all have in common. Number one in the state, which will shock you, West Feliciana Parish.

SPEAKER_00 35:53

Oh, it does not shock me. Hollis Milton doing a great job in Westfell. That is a phenomenal school system.

SPEAKER_01 35:59

Number three, Ascension Parish. Yay! Number six, Zachary, number seven, central, number nine, Livingston. Top ten. Wow. Five schools all have something in common. They all border East Baton Ridge Parish.

SPEAKER_00 36:15

And they're all community school districts.

SPEAKER_02 36:18

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 36:18

They don't have you bussing kids across town. They all have community school districts. Yeah. We why would we not want to be successful? You know, it's it's a weird thing as an adult, because as a kid, I think simple. Kids think, why would I not want to be successful? Why would I not want that? Right. As adults, we find all these excuses for not wanting to be successful. It blows my mind.

SPEAKER_01 36:41

And what's crazy is, even though St. George formed, we're all in East Batonrooch Parish. Right. The big deal was everyone's leaving East Batonrooch Parish to go to Ascension and Livingston, right? Which is the growth spurt for the good school.

SPEAKER_00 36:55

And the number one reason they're going there, and they say it, it's in studies and they put it out. It's free public education.

SPEAKER_01 37:00

Free public education, and I can still work in Baton Rouge because it's right across the bridge. We're still in East Baton Rooch Parish. St. George will be a top-performing school in East Baton Rouge parish. Yep. And a smaller school district, I feel like, would be easier to manage for Baton Rouge. Anything smaller is easier to manage. Can't figure it out. It's crazy. Now I reached out to the Baker School System. They said they're not on this list because they have too many barbershops. If they could cut the number of barbershops in Baker, they'd be on this list. What if people are dropping out of school to open barbershops?

SPEAKER_00 37:33

I'm glad you you circled back to something very important in the school system conversation. What if we integrated the barbershop into the Baker school system?

SPEAKER_01 37:46

Barbershop Training Academy.

SPEAKER_00 37:47

I mean, not only that, but talk about the mentorship those children, those at-risk children could get from all of those barbershop, either uh barbers or patrons.

SPEAKER_01 37:59

The Savicate would put up a thousand dollars to buy clippers and materials for the barbershop school in Baker.

SPEAKER_00 38:06

I mean kids graduating with Stay right in Baker. Cosmetology licenses.

SPEAKER_01 38:11

They would have to lift the moratorium on barbershops, though, if you want your kids to stay in Baker.

unknown 38:15

Right?

SPEAKER_01 38:16

Graduate with a barbershop degree from Baker High. Open your barbershop right here in Baker.

SPEAKER_00 38:20

I haven't solved this many problems since the last time I was drinking heavily.

SPEAKER_01 38:24

The Baker mayor has got to come on now. Darn it.

SPEAKER_00 38:26

It's got to come on. Come on, man. This is your chance. We we are gonna make you an award-winning school district.

SPEAKER_01 38:32

Let's do this. And and the hub, the hub of hair care for each Mattenroach Parish.

SPEAKER_00 38:38

I mean, we can do that. It's a win-win. We can do it. In fact, it could be a regional.

SPEAKER_01 38:43

If we pull this off, Zachary probably wouldn't try to annex Baker afterwards. They'd be like, no.

SPEAKER_00 38:48

They got their own They get barbershop. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:51

Let them have that side of the Comey Diversion Canal.

SPEAKER_00 38:54

They are rolling in Baker. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:56

Something to think about.

SPEAKER_00 38:58

So I don't disagree. But you know, with the school system, it it does. It it upsets me that we don't want to be successful. That's what it feels like. Yeah. Uh when I listen to them online or see them online uh with arguments about wanting to maintain the sta. We should work together. It's been 30 something years. It's been longer than that. It doesn't work.

SPEAKER_01 39:19

What is because I've seen a bunch of discussion about your kids in a magnet school now in East Paton Ridge Parish, would he be grandfathered to stay in that till he's finished? Is that something that's up for discussion?

SPEAKER_00 39:30

So finishing the system they're currently in is part of the bill, so that's mandatory. So whatever this the last grade in that school is, they can stay in there. Now, you may not want to, but that would be your option.

SPEAKER_01 39:42

So so the woman whose kids in magnet school.

SPEAKER_00 39:47

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 39:47

Okay, and she wants them to go through twelfth. But if St. George pulls them in, she'll lose that. She won't lose that.

SPEAKER_00 39:54

If she's enrolled as a freshman, if the kids enrolled as a freshman, they finish high school.

SPEAKER_01 39:57

That's very important because that's the biggest talking point.

SPEAKER_00 39:59

I think the other component part of that is the two school systems can literally agree on whatever they want the arrangement is. And we've put the offer out that if your kid wants to matriculate through the magnet program By all means. By all means, and the money can go with the kids. So the school system Baton Rouge has no detriment to doing that. Uh the seats are already available because we're taking up a bunch of them. Yeah. So it's not like anybody's hurting. Uh it seems like it was a good compromise for Magnet Mom. Uh, and and and a good win for East Baton Rouge Parish. I mean, clearly the only thing the EBR parish school system cares about are the magnet schools. Yeah. They clearly, I mean, I I I'm not, again, not a rocket shriner.

SPEAKER_01 40:42

Sure, nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that.

SPEAKER_00 40:43

Look at these dumps of other schools they have and what the effort and resources they put in those other schools, and all I can think of is they clearly don't care.

SPEAKER_01 40:50

No.

SPEAKER_00 40:51

If I'm somebody at McKinley, I should absolutely hate the EBR parish school system. Stealing money that should go to McKinley solely for liberty and Baton Rouge High and the magnets. Pathetic.

SPEAKER_01 41:05

Terrible. So true, so true. Well, that's a good point because I've seen a lot of magnet people who haven't educated themselves saying, I don't I I I want better schools, but I don't want my child to be pulled out of the magnet program.

SPEAKER_00 41:19

So And here's the humor of it. So what they're telling me is they they and I've advocated for this before. If you think that EBR Parish School System is so wonderful, how about your kid go from Baton Rouge High to Terra? Yeah. No. And let's see how you feel about that system.

SPEAKER_01 41:34

That's when that's when they call you um a racist or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 41:38

Magnet school program, and so I I made a post about some demographics the other day and just randomly put that up there. Um closer to the bat the St. George Community School District, that's West Hill Heights academic magnet. That's wham. Wham is a majority white school system. So either you have to admit that that is a diverse population, which it is, if you look at it, it was like 40% black, 41% white. It's the definition of diversity, a little bit of everything. Or you got to say that that's a segregated school that should not exist. Right. It cannot be both. It can't be both. And St. George can't be one if Wham is not either. So it you know, it's a frustrating process. I think it's the magnet moms are being a little hypocritical. If they just come out and say, I need Susie to be isolated in this high performing school system with only kids who perform at a high level academically, and I want to exclude any child that cannot perform at that level, that at least is an honest statement.

SPEAKER_01 42:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:38

That's fine. But don't be a hypocrite.

SPEAKER_01 42:40

Right.

SPEAKER_00 42:41

Most likely to stab me in the parking lot, Magnumom. The violentest of all creatures. Right. I want to do David Attenborough needs to uh come narrate the St. George Community School District story. Oh, Lord.

SPEAKER_01 43:00

So what else we got? We got uh one more. Yeah, we got one more text, and I'm not sure about this. I'm not sure who sent this. How much money has Cleve done embezzled since the last show? More than we'd ever want to know. I mean, he's probably he's probably stopped since the indictment today. That's not a fair question.

SPEAKER_00 43:18

More than we'll ever find out about it.

SPEAKER_01 43:20

That's not a fair question. I don't think I'd say zero. I say zero. I mean, when you get indicted, you're gonna stop doing it, right?

SPEAKER_00 43:28

Cleve done it. Yeah. I mean, no, you you don't stop. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

SPEAKER_01 43:34

When's that court date? I might want to.

SPEAKER_00 43:36

I would love to be in attendance.

SPEAKER_01 43:38

You think the judge will just do the show from inside the courtroom? So great. You got some pull, don't you? Not for that. This is a federal court. I don't know. Is it in 1930? I think it's federal court. I hope it's federal court. That'll kick us right out. We'd be we'd be arrested. Hey, that'd be good for the show. They're good publicity for the show, huh?

SPEAKER_00 43:55

If you like getting arrested's not good, good for anybody. For the show? You really think to the point where we want to get arrested for the sake of the show?

SPEAKER_01 44:03

If we get arrested trying to get the story, oh my God.

SPEAKER_00 44:06

We definitely get press passes for that.

SPEAKER_01 44:08

I want to email somebody at the federal courthouse to see if they'll let us do the show.

SPEAKER_00 44:11

Legitimate journalists.

SPEAKER_01 44:12

All we got to go in there with is an iPhone and two little mics. It's not like that.

SPEAKER_00 44:17

I want to talk about legitimate journalism for a second.

SPEAKER_01 44:19

And I'm going to tell you not on this show. You're trying to soil us?

SPEAKER_00 44:23

I'm telling you now, we're and this is proof in the puddin. So WAFB runs a story. Now I've had conversations with them about how I feel the slant of their stories goes sometimes. And I've been told how unbiased and neutral they are. They ran a St. George School story about the teachers' union opposing the St. George School District. They never even bothered to ask anyone from St. George to comment on the story. Really? They didn't even include in the story that a St. George official was not available for comment. They just didn't include a St. George perspective in the story at all. Teachers Union opposed. That was it. Whole story. Didn't even say what does the teachers union do all day, because no one really knows.

SPEAKER_01 45:19

What is the media taking sides on this for? Well, that's going to affect them in zero, right? That's not going to affect them at all.

SPEAKER_00 45:25

Well, actually, it does affect them. St. George Community School District being successful like our neighbors could bring more people into the area, which would increase viewership.

SPEAKER_01 45:36

More money in their pocket.

SPEAKER_00 45:37

More money for businesses in the community, which increases advertisers or the need for advertising. Yeah. So there's no negative to the St. George Community School District at all for this community. In fact, it's a rising tide which will raise all ships, including the EBR Parish School System. We start paying teachers like we feel like teachers deserve to be paid. Yeah, you're going to follow suit in the region, which means we would have the best teachers in the state in our area, or the ability to go get them.

SPEAKER_01 46:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:08

That's a win for everybody.

SPEAKER_01 46:09

Agree. That is amendment number two. Early voting. Early voting is going on now.

SPEAKER_00 46:14

Right now through the 9th, May 16th is the day of vote. If you don't turn out, then you get what you get.

SPEAKER_01 46:20

Yes. I'm going I'm going early vote this afternoon, actually.

SPEAKER_00 46:23

I'm a believer in voting day of the election. I like to see the polling ladies and I like to just I like the environment, get the feels.

SPEAKER_01 46:31

I just want to get in and vote and get the hell out.

SPEAKER_00 46:33

Well, and you have that option, and you can go get all that information uh on Facebook uh where to vote, where to early vote on the Secretary of State's website. But if you want to reach us, you want to uh email us or you want to text us, how can you do that?

SPEAKER_01 46:45

You could email us at podcast at thesadvocate.com or you can text us at 225-255-2480, and we will read your comments, assuming they're not beating up on us on the air. We'll read it.

SPEAKER_00 46:57

Maybe read some of those.

SPEAKER_01 46:58

Yeah, we'll read some.

SPEAKER_00 46:59

We've done it before.

SPEAKER_01 47:00

I've omitted a few that were beating up on Drew. I just didn't want to hurt your feelings. Oh, I'm sensitive. We get a lot of we get a lot of but I think they're all from your wife. I think she's I don't think she wants you on the show. I think she wants you to quit. She says stuff, why is Drew even on the show? Stuff like that. I'm not gonna entertain that.

SPEAKER_00 47:14

100%. 100% probably true.

SPEAKER_01 47:16

They're all from the same number. I'll give you the number you can.

SPEAKER_00 47:18

Okay, thank you. Hopefully it's my wife's number. So, anyway, that's a wrap on this episode of the Savaging Podcast. Again, we are a weekly show. Episodes should be released generally every Wednesday, and you can get us on Apple, Spotify, uh, all the places podcasts are located. We'd also love it if you just leave us a nice review. Yeah. On especially on the podcasting sites, like, subscribe, uh, share the link. That would help us grow the show and allow us to do more than one episode.

SPEAKER_01 47:46

And you'll get a you won't have to wonder if the show's uh updated because you'll get a pop-up notification when Drew uploads the new show.

SPEAKER_00 47:51

You'll be the first one to know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:53

He either uploads the show the same day or three weeks later.

SPEAKER_00 47:55

You you would get the surprise ghost episode that no one's even gonna know.

SPEAKER_01 47:59

It's coming. It's coming. The you the United NAV Cajun Navy episode is coming. It's finally here.

SPEAKER_00 48:05

Of all the episodes.

SPEAKER_01 48:06

The long anticipated Cajun Navy.

SPEAKER_00 48:10

That's the one I chose to have technical difficulties with.

SPEAKER_01 48:14

I'm just glad you didn't go missing in a flood since the show because you might have had a delayed. You think like I'm I'm sitting there, ah, help me, help me, get me on the water, Brian Trash would have to be. That looks like Drew.

SPEAKER_00 48:26

I'll be back in about two weeks. No, no. He rolls past me in the whatever bateau he's in, and then he immediately backs up. That's great. All right, that's it. Savaging podcast. Thank you.